The town of Wildwood, N.J. has a message for those strolling
on its boardwalk: Pull up your pants or pay a fine.

The Jersey Shore resort town passed an ordinance Wednesday
that bans overly saggy pants on its boardwalk. Offenders are subject to a $25
fine for the first offense, climbing up to $200 and 40 hours of community
service for subsequent violations.

"This is just adding a little bit of decency to our
town," he said. "It's amazing – and this is a pun – how far decency
has fallen through the cracks."

Known as "sagging" or "jailin'"
the trend started in prisons when inmates where inmates were not allowed to
wear belts. It soon crossed over into hip-hop artists and teens across the U.S.
There are even online instruction on how to wear sagging pants without losing
them.

Wildwood isn't the first to ban
the style. Huffington says suburbs of New Orleans, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit,
Miami and Jacksonville, Fla., have already banned the fashion statement, as has
Selma, which passed its ban in 2010. Tuscumbia, Greenville and Sheffield all
have similar laws.

In April 2012, a 20-year-old
Autauga County man appearing before a circuit court judge on another charge was
jailed for three days for contempt of court after the judge said he was
offended by his sagging pants.

In 2012, the Alabama House
passed a bill on a 59-0 vote to fine those whose pants fell below their waists.
That bill, sponsored by Dem. Rep. Alvin Holmes of Montgomery, only applied to
Montgomery County. It died in the Senate.

So what are your thoughts? Are
saggy pants obscene? Should offenders be fined? Does your town have an ordinance against sagging pants and if not, should they?